"She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her"
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"Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage."
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"The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like."
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"In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity."
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"A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all."
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"I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State."
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"We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war."
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"Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives."
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"You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere."
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"If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure."
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"I find the business world hard."
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"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."
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"It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world."
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"The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August."
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"This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it."
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"the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end"
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"Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world."
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"From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world."
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"The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness."
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"He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people."
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